[PATCH 1/2] NEWS: markup changes to make mdwn->html look slightly better

Tomi Ollila tomi.ollila at iki.fi
Wed Feb 8 09:35:28 PST 2012


On Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:49:38 +0000, Mark Walters <markwalters1009 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Wed,  1 Feb 2012 17:22:49 +0200, Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila at iki.fi> wrote:
> > Some formatting in NEWS file has been changed so that it could
> > be given to markdown processing almost verbatim.
> > More effort has been put into formatting of version 0.11 (and 0.12)
> > of notmuch NEWS than previous versions but everything is in better
> > shape that those used to be.
> 
> Hi
> 
> Could you add something saying what markup rules developers should
> follow when writing NEWS items? It would also make this patch easier to
> comment upon. As far as I can see there are 2 relatively small things:
> start an item with a * and put commands in backticks. (Actually it might
> also be worth saying how to get * and ` if you actually want them too.)

I have template section work in progress...

... and now I got an idea for an attempt to fix a problem in my current
changes (changing list items to 3rd level headers is somewhat nasty --
and with the added list items running markdown 'directly ' with NEWS file 
breaks verbatim block output).

Marked current patches as notmuch::wip.

> 
> I like the output at the address you gave.

Good :)

> Thanks

Thanks for checking this out.

> Mark

Tomi


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